1.5. Communicating

In general, whenever you send a message all players in the immediate vicinity "hear" you, and whatever you typed appears in the scrolling text portion of their screens (their Main Chat window). However, you can also send private messages.

You send messages using the chat bar (at the bottom of the Main Chat window), and all communications from all characters show up as text in the Main Chat window.

To send messages to characters in the game:

• Press "Return" or click in the chat bar to activate the text cursor.
• Type your message.
• Press "Return" to send the message.

Note: This assumes that your chat is set to use /say as the default mode, which is the default setting.

To talk to a non-player character (such as a shopkeeper NPC):

• Click on the non-player character (the NPC's name should appear in the Target Window), then press "h".

Note: You should see your character hail the NPC in your Main Chat window.

• The NPC will often respond to your hail. Words in [brackets] indicate keywords - when you see these, try asking an NPC additional questions using those words. You may get some useful information, or even a quest.

Note: However you choose to communicate, please refrain from using inappropriate language.